AFRICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 8

AFRICA.

The Natal Assembly and Legislative Council have passed the Indemnity Bill. The Cape Assembly, by 62 votes to 27, reduced all Civil servants’ salaries by 5 per cent. The Moorish bandits who captured Mr. Clark Kennedy, a Britisher, whom the British Government refused to ransom, ha»e released their captive. A self-constituted but important mission, practically representing the Egyptian Liberal party, is going to London to promote more intimate relations between Egyptian and English politicians. With a view to further retrenchment, the De Beers mine at Kimberley will be closed down on 31st inst., throwing 200 whites and 1200 natives cut of employment. The Under secretary of State for the Colonies (Lieutenant - Colonel Seely) states that the Imperial Government has decided to pay the salary of Dinizulu, the paramount Zulu chief. Gold from the Congo. Sixty thousand pounds worth of gold from King Leopold’s Kilo mines, in the Jturi province of the Congo, passed through Uganda last week. It is reported that enormously rich goldfields have been discovered in the King’s private domain. Damage to a Steamer. Advices from Durban state that the steamer Invertay, bound from New York to Auckland, struck some wreckage off Cape Aguihas, and was badly damaged, part of her cargo having to be discharged.